Edmund Burke: “The vulgar error on this subject arises from a total confusion in the very idea of things widely different in…”

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…